Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance?

Thu Nov 10 18:54:48 UTC 2011

I changed my mind. I want to clear this up. Here is an example of where 
a patent troll skipped over the manufacturer and went straight for the 
end customer. There are dozens of these attacking all verticals and 
manufacturers alike for various reasons.

http://dockets.justia.com/docket/texas/txedce/2:2008cv00471/113504/

So a customer buys a product that contains a technology. Then the 
customer is sued for possessing said technology. You don't think the 
customer (Merrill Lynch / BofA / Citigroup / etc) isn't gonna take that 
lawsuit and call the manufacturer up and tell them they are gonna eat 
it? You don't think a financial institution or a healthcare organization 
would attempt to recuperate the costs? You don't think that after the 
fact agreements are put in place so that frivolous lawsuits like this 
are appropriately handled between the manufacturer and the customer in 
the future? When millions of dollars are at stake? You don't have to 
like it. But you should be a little more objective.

I am not speaking of specific cases I'm involved in. I just googled a 
few things and found some results....

-Hammer-

"I was a normal American nerd"
-Jack Herer

On 11/10/2011 12:24 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:12:21 CST, -Hammer- said:
>    
>> WOW. You really are naive....
>>      
> I think Rich has been around long enough that he gets called a *lot* of things
> (many of them non-complimentary), but this is the first time this century
> anybody's called him *naive*... ;)
>
>    